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Reed 1865 Post Office Directory & in 1844
REDE (or REED) is a village and parish, in the hundred, union and rural deanery of Thingoe, county court district of Bury St. Edmund's, archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Ely, West Suffolk, 7 miles south-south-west from Bury station. The church of All Saints, which is a small edifice, has nave and chancel, with a tower and 3 bells, and was restored in 1850. The living is a discharged rectory, having a yearly rent-charge of £286 in lieu of tithes, with residence and 46 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held by the Rev. George Francis Turner, M.A., of Trinity College, Oxford. A National school is supported by an endowment of land left by Thomas Sparkes in 1721, producing about £20 a year, with about £12 a year paid from the Hon. William Hervey's charity; and the poor have £3 a year from Sir Robert Drury's charity, also six tons of coal yearly, and the school one ton from General Hervey's charity. The soil is clay. The crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans, and peas. The population in 1861 was 245, and the area is 1,224 acres. The Marquis of Bristol is lord of the manor and chief landowner.